The crease the number of visible gay and trans people is sometim treated as a cursy or a e for ncern by crics, but ’s not a surprise. It’s normal.
Contents:
- TENSNS BETWEEN TRANS WOMEN AND GAY MEN BOIL OVER AT STONEWALL ANNIVERSARY
- ARE ALL TRANSGENR PEOPLE GAY?
- HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR?
TENSNS BETWEEN TRANS WOMEN AND GAY MEN BOIL OVER AT STONEWALL ANNIVERSARY
Gay men were more willg than straight men (12 percent vs. Overall, gay men were far more likely than lbians to exclu dividuals based on their trans stat. Both gays and lbians were, however, nsirably more likely to date a trans person nsistent wh their preferred genr prentatn rather than their preferred genalia (transmen for gays, transwomen for lbians).
ARE ALL TRANSGENR PEOPLE GAY?
That is, how important is to a gay man that his transman date do or do not have a penis or to a lbian woman that her transwoman date has or do not have a penis? REUTERS/Brendan McDermidThe scene at New York Cy’s Stonewall Inn on Saturday, as reported by multiple wns on social media, showed how long-simmerg tensns between transgenr women of lor and whe gay men have boiled over durg the celebratn of World Pri and the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall unintified woman wanted to addrs the crowd si the Greenwich Village gay bar where patrons fought back agast police harassment 50 years ago, birthg the LGBTQ movement.
I would like to say the dience was rpectful, but there was que a b of chatter and a few jeers, ” wns Aspen Eberhardt, fance manager of the gay rights group PFLAG, wrote on many gay men, this weekend’s celebratn is about fally beg able to live their te liv, unaaid to clare who they love and beg grateful for achievg virtual equaly, at least plac like Greenwich Village, where the rebelln many transgenr women of lor, reprentg the T the LGBTQ muny, have seized the moment to air their grievanc, such as sufferg om higher levels of unemployment and homelsns as their cisgenr gay and lbian brethren. “The trans muny has not ma the same progrs as the cis gay muny has. We’ve been largely abandoned by the gay rights movement, ” said Calamy Alexis, 19, a prchool teacher livg Brooklyn who both he and she pronouns.
HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR?
Certaly many gay whe men are active promotg transgenr rights, regnizg that transgenr women of lor particular suffer om discrimatn ways they did 50 years ago.